Anna Nordqvist has finished at a stunning 25-under, two strokes off the LPGA Tour record, to win the Founders Cup in the searing Phoenix heat.
The 29-year-old former Arizona State player shot a four-under 68 on Sunday to hold off fellow major champions Ariya Jutanugarn, Stacy Lewis and In Gee Chun by two strokes in record 36C heat at Desert Ridge.
Nordqvist was two shots off the LPGA Tour record that Sei Young Kim matched last year at Desert Ridge.
The six-foot Swede had a tournament-record 61 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round.
Jutanugarn and Lewis also shot 68, and Chun had a 66.
Nordqvist won her seventh LPGA Tour title and first since successfully defending the ShopRite LPGA Classic title last June.
In the US Women's Open in July, she lost a three-hole playoff to Brittany Lang after being penalised two strokes for touching the sand with her club in a fairway bunker on the second extra hole.
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